Hawke

The story of Bob Hawke — australia's most loved Prime Minister as he faces his greatest challenge: a battle within his own party. As he fights for his life, we discover his incredible transformation from a hard-drinking womanising trade union leader into a visionary world leader. For a man who once sacrificed his family to his job, he must now rely solely on his friendships and allegiances to defeat his challenger and remain in power.

In January 1942, the Japanese war machine thundered across South East Asia. In its path lay a tiny Papuan mission station, Vunapope. Here a handful of Australian nurses took refuge along with 84 wounded Australian soldiers. Abandoned by their commanding officers, they were left to face the Japanese alone. Sisters of War is inspired by the true story of two extraordinary Australian women: Lorna Whyte, an army nurse, and Sister Berenice Twohill, a Roman Catholic nun from country New South Wales who was stationed at Vunapope.

Spies and Lies [New Zealand]

1942. New Zealand is at war. Times are desperate. The Japanese invasion seems imminent. At this perilous moment, confidence trickster Syd Ross completes his sentence and is released from Waikeria Prison. He makes a phone call and soon finds himself in front of Prime Minister Fraser. Syd tells a tale of sabotage and assassination, of a Nazi plot to take over New Zealand. Fraser contacts Major Folkes, head of the Security Intelligence Bureau. Folkes seizes on Ross story and gives Ross a new identity as well as a car, money and accommodation at The Grand in Rotorua. Ross is to gather evidence on the Nazi plot. As he does so, Folkes puts together a secret dossier, embroidering Ross lies and building a picture of a country in extreme danger. Based on the book The Plot to Subvert Wartime New Zealand by Hugh Price. (90min)